handbagful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "One morning, when I had been only two years in the service, news came that Mr. Comrie had been found dead in his library, and that about a handbagful of gems was missing."
- "Then, Friday morning, Mr. Gumming and I, with three handbagsful, took the early train, prepared to do all honor to the man who was a very great patron of Buddhism and is now reverenced as one of the Shinto deities. […] The first day, there was not very much of a crowd, though we managed to get rid of two handbagsful of the tracts, but the second day, Saturday, things were certainly lively."
- "“I’m fucking hot,” says Sandra Bernhard in this month’s issue of Vanity Fair, as she poses in ostrich features and several handbagsful of costume jewellery for celebrity photographer Michel Comte."
- "Cue handbagsful of oh-so-unfunny cross dressing jokes, triple-entendres and more screeching at Windsor Safari Park."
- "On top of that I picked a handbagful of nettles in the gardens outside the ruined buildings, elegantly plucking them using the fishnet gloves I saved from my air-raid gear."